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Rh astronomer can read the stars and calculate an eclipse. This mind-reading is the opposite of clairvoyance. It is the illumination of understanding that approximates a capacity of Soul, not sense. It is possessed only by the highly spiritual.

Such intuitions reveal whatever constitutes and perpetuates harmony, enabling one to do good, but not evil. You will reach the perfect Science of Healing when able to read the human mind after this manner, and discern the error you would destroy. The Samaritan woman said: “He told me all things that ever I did; is not this the Christ?”

It is recorded once that Jesus, as he journeyed with his students, knew their thoughts, — discerned them spiritually. In like manner he read disease and healed the sick. After the same method, events of great moment were foretold by the Hebrew prophets. Our Master rebuked the lack of this power, when he said: “Ye hypocrites, who know how to judge of the face of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times.”

Their personal senses were acute, but in spiritual sense they were wanting. Jesus knew the generation to be wicked and adulterous, seeking the material and losing the spiritual. His thrust at materialism was sharp but requisite. He never spared hypocrisy the sternest condemnation. He said, “Ye do the things ye ought not to do, and leave undone those ye ought to have done.” The great Teacher of Christian Science knew that a good tree cannot send forth evil fruit, — that Truth communicates Truth, but never imparts error.

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